I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years. Emory Cohen More Quotes by Emory Cohen More Quotes From Emory Cohen I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process. Emory Cohen boy me bad-boy sweet Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. Emory Cohen city me you home The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine. Emory Cohen myself me trust work I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren't like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school. Emory Cohen bad-people family people school I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me. Emory Cohen me fear character people It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. Emory Cohen will training process train I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human. Emory Cohen i-am good myself character When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.' Emory Cohen captain loved bad lost I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge. Emory Cohen me freedom work love If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck. Emory Cohen get job safe play That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance. Emory Cohen any performance take risk After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really. Emory Cohen street bad me way 'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do. Emory Cohen movie thousand house love There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them. Emory Cohen them been know shows When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them. Emory Cohen never thought bad things When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable. Emory Cohen story me you love I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life. Emory Cohen every my-life zero life I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s. Emory Cohen just who respect people My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living. Emory Cohen respect family stars trying I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch. Emory Cohen come where me want
